Physical assets in a network are graphically modeled and controlled using a monitoring and control interface. Prior to committing configuration changes to the physical assets, the draft configuration changes are analyzed to determine if they violate any logical configuration change rules. The logical configuration rules can be model-based according to target physical asset(s) for the draft configuration changes. A logical configuration change rule violation can be graphically displayed on the monitoring and control interface. The configuration changes can be stored to debug the physical assets and to roll back the configuration of the physical assets to a prior state.
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2. The method of claim 1, further comprising accepting a second input through said one or more model-based graphical user interface tools that modifies at least one of the draft configuration changes, in response to the violation of the first logical configuration change rule, to form a plurality of updated draft configuration changes.
4. The method of claim 2, further comprising, before accepting the second input, graphically prompting the user, in response to the violation of the first logical configuration change rule, to modify the draft configuration changes.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first logical configuration rule is based on a data model of a class of said data-connected physical assets, the data model describing a hardware of the class of said data-connected physical assets, a software of the class of said data-connected physical assets, and modifiable configurations, settings, and/or parameters of the class of said data-connected physical assets.
8. The method of claim 1, further comprising when a first draft inverse configuration change violates at least one logical configuration change rule, using the GPU to update the model-based three-dimensional vector graphics representation of said data-connected physical assets to graphically indicate that the first draft inverse configuration change violates the at least one logical configuration change rule.
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